@pspeed
kind sir, this extremely important subject/thread should be stickified, as the entitysystem explanation link “should too in some way”?
my pet project will have to be cured b4 it’s too late and it die “again”, as I (the developer) am already feeling it’s symbiotic symptoms :/, better sooner than later :>, and the possibilities and code decomplexifying promise are quite exciting! back to re-coding with a relieved soul, thx u sir! 
example project here:
GitHub - jMonkeyEngine-Contributions/zay-es: Zay-ES is a Java-based high-performance entity-component-system. (usage example)
JMonkey Entity System - #2 by mifth